The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 43
The children must be got rid of; we’ll lead them deeper into the wood this time, so that they won’t be able to find their way out again.
Who acts: we, children · What happens: get, lead, not be, find out · To what, where: children, wood, way
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | aux:pass |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rid | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 lead | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 lead | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lead | aux |
| 11 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lead | obj |
| 13 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 lead | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lead | obl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lead | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 able | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 able | nsubj |
| 23 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | aux |
| 24 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 able | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lead | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 find | mark |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 way | nmod:poss |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 find | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 find | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 find | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | must · passive | the children | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lead | future | we | children = child | the wood | time | deep property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into wood=Destination | |
| 3 | not is | future | children = child | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find out | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | children's way | again | out property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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